Chepkat
@chepkat.bsky.social
Hospital Chaplain, Justice-seeker, Forever Learner, Covid Cautious Cat Mom
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
September 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Tell Your Republican Representative to Oppose Trump's Medicaid-Slashing, Billionaire-Enriching Megabill act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
Tell Your Republican Representative to Oppose Trump's Medicaid-Slashing, Billionaire-Enriching Megabill
The Republican reconciliation bill has only gotten worse in the Senate. To pay for tax breaks for billionaires, it slashes nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid, chips away at the Affordable Care Ac...
act.indivisible.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tell Your Republican Representative to Oppose Trump's Medicaid-Slashing, Billionaire-Enriching Megabill act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...
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maybe I’m Catholic now?
May 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
maybe I’m Catholic now?
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🚨BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS election challenge to Proposition A, the minimum wage and sick leave bill approved by voters in November. A victory for the Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund and the voters of Missouri.
April 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS election challenge to Proposition A, the minimum wage and sick leave bill approved by voters in November. A victory for the Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund and the voters of Missouri.
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🚨 FBI Director Kash Patel says federal agents have just arrested a sitting judge.
FBI Arrests Judge for Allegedly Helping Migrant Evade Deportation
This is a significant escalation against sitting judges
meidasnews.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨 FBI Director Kash Patel says federal agents have just arrested a sitting judge.
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There are numerous calls to investigate whether Trump and his cronies engaged in insider trading, pump and dumps, etc.
But it won't be DOJ.
It won't be the SEC.
It won't be Congress.
You know who CAN investigate this?
NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.
But it won't be DOJ.
It won't be the SEC.
It won't be Congress.
You know who CAN investigate this?
NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.
April 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There are numerous calls to investigate whether Trump and his cronies engaged in insider trading, pump and dumps, etc.
But it won't be DOJ.
It won't be the SEC.
It won't be Congress.
You know who CAN investigate this?
NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.
But it won't be DOJ.
It won't be the SEC.
It won't be Congress.
You know who CAN investigate this?
NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.
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Not only did the president of Tufts University provide an excellent and strong declaration in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in federal court. He providing an illuminating timeline of events around when she was seized by ICE.
Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!
Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!
University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
www.tufts.edu
April 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Not only did the president of Tufts University provide an excellent and strong declaration in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in federal court. He providing an illuminating timeline of events around when she was seized by ICE.
Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!
Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!
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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
April 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.
Your DNA is for sale.
This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
This is the danger of all personal data. As a commodity, it is always at risk of being sold. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...
oag.ca.gov
March 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Trump administration has deported a 10-year-old girl to Mexico who is a US citizen and is recovering from brain cancer.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
Her family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup when they were detained.
Just sent the folks at #MSNC my thoughts on their ridiculous decision to fire @joyannreid.bsky.social. Here is the email address I found on their website MSNBCTVinfo@nbcuni.com in case anyone else wants to send their thoughts as well.
February 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just sent the folks at #MSNC my thoughts on their ridiculous decision to fire @joyannreid.bsky.social. Here is the email address I found on their website MSNBCTVinfo@nbcuni.com in case anyone else wants to send their thoughts as well.
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"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.
February 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.
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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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I just saw a post from the daily goddamn wire talking about how Elon musk schooled reporters on transparency.
The doge.gov website is blank. It’s literally blank. We are not living in the same reality as these people and it’s wild
The doge.gov website is blank. It’s literally blank. We are not living in the same reality as these people and it’s wild
doge.gov
February 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I just saw a post from the daily goddamn wire talking about how Elon musk schooled reporters on transparency.
The doge.gov website is blank. It’s literally blank. We are not living in the same reality as these people and it’s wild
The doge.gov website is blank. It’s literally blank. We are not living in the same reality as these people and it’s wild
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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
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You know that guy claiming to uncover fraud with absolutely zero evidence? Locked himself down a nice contract yesterday.
February 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
You know that guy claiming to uncover fraud with absolutely zero evidence? Locked himself down a nice contract yesterday.
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I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams
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The subversive genius of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance
The Compton MC might have just given us the biggest rap performance ever
andscape.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams
andscape.com/features/gen...
andscape.com/features/gen...
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So many of America’s white grandpas just learned who Kendrick Lamar is and then learned who Drake is and then learned to hate Drake.
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
So many of America’s white grandpas just learned who Kendrick Lamar is and then learned who Drake is and then learned to hate Drake.
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million